Donors Await Boy Scouts Decision on Gay Ban

Scouting officials and others say gifts totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars are at stake

Eric Gay/AP Images

By Debra E. Blum

Donors across the country have suspended giving to the Boy Scouts of America in anticipation of a national vote this month on a controversial proposal to ease the organization’s anti-gay membership policies.

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